2009/5/3 Russ Allbery <r...@stanford.edu>
>
> Gary Law <gary....@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > The init script is clearly trying to make the pid file appear in
> > /var/run/puppet... so I've little idea why this is happening.
> >
> > from the init script:
> > start_puppet() {
> > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile
> > /var/run/puppet/$NAME.pid \
> > --startas $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_OPTS
> > }
>
> That flag doesn't say where to write the PID file. It tells
> start-stop-daemon where puppetd *will* write the PID file. You still
> have to configure puppetd elsewhere (in puppet.conf, specifically) to
> put the PID file there.
>
> Everyone seems to get confused about what the --pidfile option to
> start-stop-daemon does. It doesn't create anything at all. It just
> says where to find something that the daemon is creating.
>
Guess my Debian newbiness shining through there :)
Thanks for the explanation.
Gary
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